Phoneme resistance during speech-in-speech comprehension

Léo Varnet (1) , Julien Meyer (2) , Michel Hoen (3) , Fanny Meunier (1)

1 L2C2 - Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition
2 Museu Goeldy
3 CRNL - Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

This study investigates masking effects occurring during speech comprehension in the presence of concurrent speech signals. We examined the differential effects of 4- to 8-talker babble (natural speech) or babble-like noise (reversed speech) on word identification. We measured phoneme identification rates. Results showed that different types of linguistic information can interfere with speech recognition and that different resistances are observed for different phonemes depending on interfering noise.

Domaines: Linguistique

Léo Varnet, Julien Meyer, Michel Hoen, Fanny Meunier. Phoneme resistance during speech-in-speech comprehension. 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Sep 2012, Portland, Oregon, United States. ⟨hal-00932285⟩